RSC2025-April week 3

I got some RSC blocks made this week! Three Patchwork Hearts, four scrappy rail fence, & six County Fair blocks for the Amy Smart quilt. So 5 of my 8 block sets are done for the month & I’ve got some month left to finish the rest.

Since it’s red month & I want to get WIP’s done, I pulled out these blocks. They are from Amy Ellis‘ Modern Quilt Block Series when she was giving them away for free. I made the blocks with one red section, called Scraps, in 2021 or 2022 for a donation quilt but they got set aside. So I pulled them out & made the boxy blocks, called Option, to add to them. I got them all sewed together, pieced some batting & backing, and now it’s ready to take to my quilting partner for quilting.

My quilt group likes to make small baby quilts for Joyful Welcome, so I used the six leftover Scraps blocks & more jelly roll strips to make this little quilt. I also found batting & backing, so it’s ready to go to my partner, as well. I used up most of the reds in a batik RW&B roll I had, so during blue month I’ll have to make a blue donation quilt with those strips.

Remember that quilt group project I was working on last month? Well, we finished it, I quilted it, & finished the hand binding this week. So now it’s my spring table topper. Yay! The values of my grays & aquas in the cabins were too similar to make the wave configuration of the pattern, but I like the colors, so I’m OK with giving up the secondary pattern. My partners’ RW&B versions are more dramatic. Bonus: all the fabric came from my stash, plus the batting & backing were leftovers from another quilt, so it was a good use of scraps!